Systems, apparatus, and/or processes directed to applying pressure to a socket to alter a shape of the socket to improve a connection between the socket and a substrate, printed circuit board, or other component. The socket may receive one or more chips, may be an interconnect, or may be some other structure that is part of a package. The shape of the socket may be flattened so that a side of the socket may form a high-quality physical and electrical coupling with the substrate.

Contact system for producing an electrically conductive contact between an aluminum conductor (3) and a contact component (2). A housing (1) is provided, as well as a contact component (2) having a shearing-off section (13) and a tapered compression segment (14), where the housing (1) has an insertion volume (4) for the aluminum conductor (3) and an insertion volume (5) for the contact component (2) and the two insertion volumes (4, 5) overlap within the housing (1) and form a common overlapping volume (8) so as to enable, when the aluminum conductor (3) has been pushed into the insertion volume (4), for the aluminum conductor (3), the severing/shearing-off and cold welding of the aluminum conductor (3) with the contact component (2) by means of the contact component (2).

Contact system for producing an electrically conductive contact between an aluminum conductor (3) and a contact component (2). A housing (1) is provided, as well as a contact component (2) having a shearing-off section (13) and a tapered compression segment (14), where the housing (1) has an insertion volume (4) for the aluminum conductor (3) and an insertion volume (5) for the contact component (2) and the two insertion volumes (4, 5) overlap within the housing (1) and form a common overlapping volume (8) so as to enable, when the aluminum conductor (3) has been pushed into the insertion volume (4), for the aluminum conductor (3), the severing/shearing-off and cold welding of the aluminum conductor (3) with the contact component (2) by means of the contact component (2).

A terminal crimping device crimps a terminal metal fitting positioned at a crimping position to an electric wire. The device includes an anvil which is positioned under the crimping position, a crimper which is positioned above the crimping position, a pressing mechanism which presses down the crimper to crimp the terminal metal fitting to the electric wire with the anvil and the crimper, a terminal supply mechanism to supply the terminal metal fitting to the crimping position, a position adjusting mechanism which is provided in the terminal supply mechanism to adjust a position of the terminal metal fitting for the crimping position, and a photographing device to photograph the terminal metal fitting fed to the crimping position.

A crimp interconnect device, a crimped arrangement and a method for making a crimped arrangement are disclosed. In an embodiment a crimp interconnect device includes a deformable barrel body having an inner side and an outer side and a first material, and a second material that is softer than the first material, wherein the second material is arranged on the inner side.

A wire/terminal production method includes placing a core on a bottom plate and crimping wire barrels to the core by a crimping tool. The crimping tool includes a first tool having a placing surface on which the bottom plate and the core are placed, and a second tool having a curved surface for curving the wire barrels toward the placing surface. The curved surface has a first inclined surface inclined out on a first end in an extending direction of the wire, a second inclined surface inclined out on a second end in the extending direction and a contact surface located between the inclined surfaces. A dimension of the curved surface in the extending direction exceeds a dimension of the wire barrels in the extending direction. A dimension of the contact surface in the extending direction is no greater than the dimension of the wire barrels in the extending direction.

An electrical connector for a composite core conductor and a method of controlling crimping thereof includes a coupling portion and a tubular portion extending from the coupling portion. A conductor has a non-metallic core surrounded by electrically conductive strands and has a connecting portion of the core extending axially beyond the strands. The connecting portion is received in the tubular portion. A crimped portion on the tubular portion radially engages the connecting portion and secures the conductor to the tubular portion. The crimped portion is formed by concave surfaces on internal surfaces of crimping dies. The concave surfaces have different radii of curvature than remaining portions of the internal surfaces.

A telecommunications connector includes a connector body and a shield attached to the connector body, the shield including a main body portion configured for attachment to the connector body and a barrel portion for crimping against a cable to be terminated to the connector. The barrel portion of the shield includes a corrugated side wall made up of a series of bends extending along a direction from the rear end of the barrel toward the front end of the barrel along at least a portion of a length of the barrel, wherein the bends defining the corrugated side wall are provided on the shield at a pre-crimped stage.

A telecommunications connector includes a connector body and a shield attached to the connector body, the shield including a main body portion configured for attachment to the connector body and a barrel portion for crimping against a cable to be terminated to the connector. The barrel portion of the shield includes a corrugated side wall made up of a series of bends extending along a direction from the rear end of the barrel toward the front end of the barrel along at least a portion of a length of the barrel, wherein the bends defining the corrugated side wall are provided on the shield at a pre-crimped stage.

A method for attaching a contact element to the end of an electrical conductor is provided. In the method electrically conductive material is shaped to form a contact element with a variable shape. The end of the bare conductor is firstly moved into an at least approximately vertical position. Particles of an electrically conductive material are then applied at a high speed to the upwardly projecting front-side end of the conductor in the axial direction thereof that the material of the conductor connects to the electrically conductive material to form a compact structure which is connected to the material of the conductor in a mechanically fixed and electrically conductive fashion. Additional particles of the electrically conductive material are applied to the compact structure, and the metal body is shaped mechanically to form the contact element.